Articles Tagged 'Mark Strong'

You may be familiar with the term Stockholm syndrome, but have you ever thought about where it comes from? The new film Stockholm (in some countries its called The Captor) — “based on an absurd but true story”— details a 1973 bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden, where the hostages get to the point of defending […]

Director Sam Mendes‘ first movie since back-to-back Bond flicks Skyfall and Spectre was always going to be a big deal. But now, it’s become an even bigger one with the addition of a raft of new cast members including Benedict Cumberbatch, Colin Firth, and Bodyguard‘s Richard Madden. The World War 1 movie, titled 1917, will […]

Last time we checked in on Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy star Mark Strong he was talking about his chances of playing a villain opposite pal Daniel Craig in a James Bond flick. Before that, we reported on him starring with Colin Firth and Michael Caine in Kingsman: The Secret Service. We’re seeing a pattern… he seems to have his finger […]

Does Mark Strong know something we don’t know? Strong took a moment to check in with ShortList at the premiere for his new film The Brother Grimsby. The film stars Strong as a James Bond type agent, with Sacha Baron Cohen portraying his football hooligan brother. The conversation with ShortList turned to the actual James […]

A couple of weeks ago, we posed the question ‘Who is the British Kevin Bacon?’ as a way of celebrating those British character actors who have appeared in such a staggering variety of U.K. films and TV shows that you could use their various projects as stepping stones to access almost every other working actor […]

Anglophenians, we need you to help us solve a puzzle. We’re all fairly familiar with the way Kevin Bacon‘s name has become a ubiquitous term to describe, well, ubiquity. It started as a punning title for a game—Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon—in which you try and work out a journey of work associations, jumping across […]

This is a fantastic picture, is it not? Amanda Abbington and Mark Gatiss flanking the great Angela Lansbury at last night’s (April 11) Olivier Awards. Angela was there to accept the award for best actress in a supporting role, given for her portrayal of the medium Madame Arcati in the Gielgud Theatre’s production of Blithe […]

The Theory of Everything’s Eddie Redmayne has topped GQ’s best-dressed list of 2015. And, we’re only a week into the year. Redmayne is followed by Benedict Cumberbatch, with Jamie Dornan rounding out the third spot … woah, woah, this list is seriously Britished-up. Okay, we need to “stop the presses,” or “slow the roll,” whichever […]

2014 was a pretty good year for British stars at the box office, from James McAvoy and Patrick Stewart in X-Men, to Rosamund Pike in Gone Girl, to Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley in The Imitation Game. But that’s all nothing compared to 2015, with the coming year seeing a veritable explosion of Brit talent in some of the biggest […]

Back in May, the first trailer was released for Colin Firth and Michael Caine’s new action-comedy Kingsman: The Secret Service, which is a kind of James Bond-meets-Men In Black sort of a thing, adapted from a comic book by Mark Millar (Kick-Ass) and directed by Matthew Vaughn (X Men: First Class). And it looked like […]